About the book: 2023 / We present the author’s collection of both previously published books and unpublished articles, united by one topic: the fate of a great country that has provided, provides and, undoubtedly increasing its influence in the future on the course of world history. On the pages of the collection, thoughtful readers will learn a lot that is new, or even unknown to themselves. The main events of the book date back to 1917-1924, their participants were V.I. Lenin, I.V. Stalin, L.D. Trotsky, G.E. Zinoviev, L.B. Kamenev, A.I. Rykov, N.I.Bukharin and some other prominent figures of the Communist Party and the Soviet government. Readers will also get acquainted with the author’s point of view on who V.I. Lenin could consider as his successor, and will also find the answer to the question why the USSR is a “socialist state of the people” of developed, mature socialism, in which the mid-30s in the 20th century, socialism was basically built, and in the mid-50s of the 20th century, socialism won completely and completely and ceased to exist.